Where We Operate

After being founded as a medical charity, organizing its work and conducting 78 surgeries in Memphis, TN, the ICHF turned its focus to developing countries where children with congenital heart defects have no options. These countries span all continents.

The statistics on this page document the thousands of children whose lives ICHF has saved all around the world since its first Babyheart Medical Mission to Zagreb, Croatia in April, 1993. Local doctors trained by ICHF medical teams continue to save thousands more.

North America (where it all started)

City, Country

Total operations

Memphis, TN, USA

78

Europe

City, Country

Total operations

Belgrade, Serbia

90

Bucharest, Romania

36

Kemerovo, Russia

166

Kharkiv, Ukraine

387

Kyiv, Ukraine

122

Minsk, Belarus

406

Odessa, Ukraine

57

Sarajevo, Bosnia

51

Skopje, Macedonia

45

Zagreb, Croatia

616

Central America/Caribbean

City, Country

Total Operations

Havana, Cuba

8

Jimani, Dominican Republic

8

Kingston, Jamaica

15

Managua, Nicaragua

690

Mirebalais, Haiti

13

Monterrey, Mexico

39

Santiago, Dominican Republic

513

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

132

Tegucicalpa, Honduras

408

Asia

City, Country

Total Operations

Almaty, Kazakhstan

63

Beijing, China

229

Cebu, Philippines

16

Chennai, India

34

Hohhot, China

25

Hyderabad, India

187

Nanjing, China

94

Pune, India

19

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

327

Shanghai, China

92

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

11

Wuhan, China

40

South America

City, Country

Total Operations

Ascuncion, Paraguay

14

Bogota, Colombia

346

Georgetown, Guyana

131

Guayaquil, Equador

473

Lima, Peru

355

Maceio, Brazil

28

Santa Cruz, Bolivia

12

Middle East

City, Country

Total Operations

Basra, Iraq

52

East Jerusalem, Palestine

16

Kuwait City, Kuwait

11

Njaf, Iraq

72

Nasiriya, Iraq

420

Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

39

Africa

City, Country

Total Operations

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

22

Assiut, Egypt

55

Benghazi, Libya

139

Enugu, Nigeria

12

Khartoum, Sudan

102

Rabat, Morocco

31

Free Child Heart Surgeries

7,925 Total Surgeries

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Mission Statement

The mission of the International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) is to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to cure and care for children with congenital heart disease in developing nations. ICHF does this regardless of country of origin, race, religion or gender. Our goal is to make the need for ICHF obsolete. We work toward this goal through our medical mission trips, where we operate on children and educate local healthcare professionals.